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Significats de tortoiseshell turtle en anglès

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Pugnacious tropical sea turtle with a hawk-like beak; source of food and the best tortoiseshell.

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        Examples for "hawksbill"
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        Other turtles which nest there are the hawksbill and the Oliver Ridley.
        Reuters
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        Yeh scooped out a large hawksbill turtle named Genie and held her up.
        BBC
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        It might be a lace handkerchief, a pink Paumotan pearl, or a comb of hawksbill turtle.
        The Turtles of Tasman
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        National conservation measures are not enough to protect critically endangered hawksbill sea turtle populations in the Pacific.
        Radio NZ
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        Our fishing party have taken in their seine to-day, two flying-fish of the gurnet species, and a hawksbill turtle.
        A Voyage Round the World, Volume I / Including Travels in Africa...
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        The hawkbill slashed down, cutting open Pemberton's front pant pocket and freeing the twenty-dollar gold piece.
        Serena
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        A hawkbill knife was found near him.
        Marse Henry (Volume 1) / An Autobiography
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        He took the hawkbill knife from his pocket and freed the blade with the same slow deliberateness he might undo a bow.
        Serena
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        And we traded and salved wherever a dollar promised in the way of pearl and pearl shell, copra, beche-de-mer, hawkbill turtle shell, and stranded wrecks.
        South Sea Tales
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        It was Chainday the twentieth, or the seventh Skydi of Hawkbill-Bellis no longer cared which.
        The Scar
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        Yeh scooped out a large hawksbill turtle named Genie and held her up.
        BBC
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        It might be a lace handkerchief, a pink Paumotan pearl, or a comb of hawksbill turtle.
        The Turtles of Tasman
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        Our fishing party have taken in their seine to-day, two flying-fish of the gurnet species, and a hawksbill turtle.
        A Voyage Round the World, Volume I / Including Travels in Africa...
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        Species such as the hawksbill turtle are dependent on coral reefs which are bleaching and dying with climate change.
        The Guardian
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        The Hawksbill Turtle is distinguished by the hawk-like appearance of its head.
        Pathfinder; or, The Missing Tenderfoot
        Translations for tortoiseshell turtle
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